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Barton Sutter, Duluth Poet Laureate and an award-winning
Minnesota poet, essayist, and fiction writer, will give a reading at 7:30
p.m. on Saturday, October 21 in the Weber Music Hall. The UMD Department
of English and Lake Superior Writers are sponsors of the event. Sutter
is the author of four collections of poetry, a collection of short stories,
and a collection of essays.

Sutter was chosen as Duluth's first poet laureate, a two-year
position, in April 2006. He teaches English and creative writing at the
University of Wisconsin-Superior.

Barton Sutter will be joined by his brother, Ross Sutter,
to form a poetry and music duo. The brothers have performed together ever
since they were growing up as a couple of preacher's kids. Ross plays
a number of instruments including guitar, button accordion, concertina,
dulcimer, and Irish goat-skinned drum.

Barton Sutter is the only author to win the Minnesota Book
Award in three different categories: for fiction with My Father's
War and Other Stories; for creative non-fiction with Cold Comfort:
Life at the Top of the Map; and for poetry with The Book of Names:
New and Selected Poems. Among other honors, he has won a Jerome
Foundation Travel & Study Grant (Sweden), a Loft-McKnight Award, and
the Bassine Citation from the Academy of American Poets. He has
adapted his poems for the stage and written for public radio.

The Duluth Poet Laureate is a newly created position that
recognizes and honors a poet of exceptional talent and accomplishment.
The position encourages enjoyment of poetry and literary life in the Duluth
area and makes the Poet Laureate available to a wide audience. Lake Superior
Writers, a Duluth writing group, sponsors the Duluth Poet Laureate and
holds public Poet Laureate events each year. Duluth is the first city
in Minnesota to name a Poet Laureate.

For information about the event, contact the UMD English
Department, 726-8228.